Colorado Rockies
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Colorado Rockies
Established 1993
Team Logo
Cap Insignia
Major league affiliations
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Current uniform
Retired Numbers
42
Colors
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Name
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Other nicknames
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Ballpark
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• Mile High Stadium (1993-1994)
Major league titles
World Series titles (0)
NL Pennants (1)
2007
NL West Division titles (0)
Wild card berths (2)
1995 • 2007
Owner(s): Charlie Monfort and Dick
Monfort
Manager: Clint Hurdle
General Manager: Dan O’Dowd
The Colorado Rockies are a Major League
Baseball team based in Denver, Colorado. Es-
tablished in 1993, the Rockies play in the
West Division of the National League. The
team is named after the Rocky Mountains,
which pass through Colorado, just west of
Denver. The Rockies play their home games
at Coors Field in downtown Denver.
Following multiple losing seasons, the
Rockies won the National League pennant for
the first time in franchise history during the
2007 season. The Rockies and the Florida
Marlins are the only two teams in Major
League Baseball to have never won division
titles.
History
Creation of the Rockies
After previous failed attempts to bring the
Major League Baseball to Colorado (most
notably the Pittsburgh Pirates nearly relocat-
ing to Denver following the Pittsburgh drug
trials in 1985), by the early 1990s a team
seemed to be a possibility in Denver. The Col-
orado Baseball Commission, led by banking
executive Larry Varnell, was successful in
getting Denver voters to approve a 0.1 per-
cent sales tax to help finance a new baseball
stadium. Also, an advisory committee was
formed in 1990 by then-Governor of Colorado
Roy Romer to recruit an ownership group.
The group selected was led by John Anto-
nucci, an Ohio beverage distributor, and Mi-
chael I. Monus, the head of the Phar-Mor
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drugstore chain. Local and regional compan-
ies—such as Erie Lake, Hensel Phelps Con-
struction, KOA Radio, and the Rocky Moun-
tain News—rounded out the group. On